The institute was founded in 1984 by Chicago investor David H. Padden. In the 1990s, the Heartland Institute worked with the tobacco company Philip Morris to question the science linking second ...

David H. Padden, founder and chairman emeritus of The Heartland Institute, died of a heart attack while at his Chicago home on Sunday, October 2, 2011. He was 84. Padden was a pioneer of the ...

Nigel Farage and Liz Truss were at the UK launch of a US-based climate change denying lobbying group in December. The Heartland Institute, the US-based free market think tank known for denying ...

A new paper by The Heartland Institute urges policymakers to push back against CCS projects, which often entail the use of eminent domain to seize private property from landowners. The paper, titled ...

The Illinois-based Heartland Institute opened a new satellite branch last month in the United Kingdom. It aims to be a resource for conservative European lawmakers who champion the “principles of ...

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